Jeffrey Stein, is a serial technology entrepreneur. After earning an MBA from Stanford Business School, he founded Open Data Registry, backed by venture capital from Andreessen-Horowitz, which used graph database technology to provide traceability across complex global supply chains for major consumer goods companies. He then went on to co-found Orbital Insight, which pioneered the application of deep learning and other artificial intelligence technologies to automating the analysis of satellite imagery of Earth. Jeffrey was VP of Business Development, where he provided executive leadership in growing the company from zero to over 100 employees and raising $80 million in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, Google, Lux Capital, Bloomberg, and In-Q-Tel.
Russell Jurney is a machine learning and data engineer with 18 years of experience building apps from data. He joined Jeffrey as co-founder and CTO of Deep Discovery. Previously, he founded Relato, which analyzed markets with its own business graph extracted from the business web. He was also CTO of Archipelo - a venture backed code search company, an early Senior Data Scientist in Product Analytics at LinkedIn and was the first Hadoop Evangelist at Hortonworks. Russell is also the author of four O’Reilly books, including Agile Data Science 2.0. He blogs about open source at Data Syndrome.
Deep Discovery is hiring a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer with deep learning and search experience to build a neural network representation of the business graph incorporating text and structured representations. We extract structured information from news and other text to build networks that drive the models that generate risk scores for the customers of banks, which they use when conducting background checks. This is called a Know Your Customer (KYC) system for Anti Money Laundering (AML) and banks use these systems to evaluate the risk of doing business with their clients so they don’t face stiff fines from regulatory agencies.
We are taking a network-centric approach to KYC that evaluates clients in terms of the context in which they do business this involves several machine learning tasks: extracting knowledge graphs from news and other text, entity and identity resolution of the networks we collect about the economy, representation learning on the resulting graphs and their associated documents, building a scoring engine that uses our business graph to create an accurate risk score. Users do not believe predictions without explanations and the cost of errors is high, so the final machine learning component is the most critical: the system must be explainable in terms of the graphs from which we draw conclusions, and we use a graph database and network visualizations to explain our risk scores.
We’re looking for a self-motivated ML Engineer with the background to be productive, that can learn the domain quickly and who can mine the literature and customize algorithms and systems to come up with novel solutions to the problems we face in delivering a product. While being published is good, the most important thing we want in a candidate is a track record of shipping products to real customers. We have data engineers but expect you to be fairly self-supporting in carrying out your work, so generalist skills are important. Candidates without advanced degrees are welcome, experience is education.
Deep Discovery is hiring a Machine Learning Operations Engineer to build the infrastructure for acquiring, ingesting, processing, indexing and retrieving the data streams it consumes and that will build our platforms to enable the training, tuning, deployment and monitoring of statistical models behind background checks for banks that our product produces. This is called a Know Your Customer (KYC) system and banks use them to evaluate the risk of doing business with their clients so they don’t face stiff fines from global regulatory agencies as much as $10 billion each year.
The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in data engineering or machine learning operations, has early stage startup experience and is excited by the opportunity to define and build the data and machine learning systems driving a mission critical application for the finance industry. Finance experience is a plus. Strong python skills essential. Search experience needed.
Deep Discovery is hiring a network visualization engineer with experience building one or more interactive network visualizations with custom controls and interactivity and search experience to lead development of the a state of the art interface for background checks for banks. This is called a Know Your Customer (KYC) system and banks use them to evaluate the risk of doing business with their clients so they don’t face stiff fines from regulatory agencies. We are taking a network-centric approach to KYC that evaluates clients in terms of the context in which they do business and are building a user interface to present this information that is carefully optimized around the information needs of the end-user. Network visualization is used to provide explainability for our model.
Among other uses of data visualization, our UI will use network visualization to present a risk score along with an explanation of how the network around the client contributed to the score. This will enable banks to evaluate clients in terms of the network in which they do business. Before we get to experience the visualization engineer dream of building a (non-creepy) Palantir 2.0, we have to find the right client to display in the first place. In order to do that, we need a front end developer who has experience building user interfaces for information retrieval. The process of filtering and evaluating evidence for KYC checks is inherently iterative and we will need to carefully refine the results in a way that users love.
The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience as a front end engineer, 3+ years of experience with data visualization or building dashboards and 1+ years of experience building interfaces to a search engine or some form of information retrieval. You don’t have to be a designer but you do need to demonstrate that you’ve built some beautiful things. We want a full partner in refining the interface to be the best ever built in this industry. You don’t have to be a backend developer but you do have to code your own APIs using node.js. You know how to cloud deploy a web app.
Note the use of the word “ideal candidate” and the reality that not everything in life is ideal but that’s alright if you get the shit done. In other words… don’t hesitate to apply if you don’t check every box.
Deep Discovery is hiring a Data Scientist to work on finding, collecting, ingesting, describing, cleaning and analyzing new datasets to incorporate into the system behind background checks for banks that our product produces. This is called a Know Your Customer (KYC) system and banks use them to evaluate the risk of doing business with their clients so they don’t face stiff fines from global regulatory agencies as much as $14 billion each year.
We are taking a network-centric approach to KYC that evaluates clients in terms of the context in which they do business. In order to build, annotate and extend a large business graph of the world’s light and dark economy, we need to ingest an increasing number of datasets to provide our risk scoring system with the features it needs to determine risk.
The ideal candidate has a CS, Math, Statistics or Physics degree and at least 3+ years of Python experience in working with data, has an active GitHub portfolio of original projects, has research or early stage startup experience and is excited by the opportunity to feed and nourish a mission critical application for the finance industry. Big data experience with Spark, Hadoop, Dask or another system a plus.
Deep Discovery is hiring a Investigative Data Journalist to use its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) tools to investigate and catch money launderers and criminal networks. The role needs a senior journalist who has the background and investigative skills not just to provide expert feedback but to come up with new methods and investigative techniques for our engineering team to automate. These case studies will be used as training data for our algorithms that assign a risk score to banks’ customers. This is called a Know Your Customer (KYC) system and banks use them to evaluate the risk of doing business with their clients so they don’t face stiff fines from global regulatory agencies as much as $14 billion each year. In addition to helping banks, accredited investigative journalists will be given access to our tools, and you’ll be the first journalist to test and guide the product.
We are taking a network-centric approach to KYC that evaluates clients in terms of the context in which they do business. We are building an enormous business graph covering the world’s light and dark economies, and will mine this graph to reach a deeper understanding of financial risk. Your job will be to use your investigative skills and our tools to shine light on the actions of bad guys who’s illicit activities constitute as much as 5% of the world’s economy. This is a chance to own a significant stake in the company you work for while practicing your trade.
Please include a LinkedIn profile or resume, link to your Github portfolio and a note explaining why you want to work here.
